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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "engrdavid white" <engrdavidwhite2@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:29:49 +0000
Subject: ATTANTION DEAR


Engr.David white koffi
Accra, Ghana.
+233 244029696
Dear
I am Engr. David white koffi, the Project Engineer of ASIP- Ghana. And ASIP
for the purposes of explanation means--- AGRICULTURAL SECTOR INVESTMENT
PROJECT (ASIP) This is a World Bank sponsored Multi-Million U.S Dollars
Agricultural project in Ghana.
Forgive my indignation, if this letter comes to you as a surprise and offend
you, because you have no prior knowledge of this. I got your contact during
my search for a reliable person to entrust this huge money transfer project
with. As the Chief Engineer in charge of the project, I and my colleagues
involved in this project have agreed to seek your mutual partnership into a
huge money transfer project. We wish to transfer the sum of five million
united state Dollars ($5M) from the project Fund into your personal or
company’s Bank account for our personal use.. This fund originate from over
invoiced estimate we made for materials at the project site This over
invoiced sum was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with all
attendant lope holes sealed off It was our consensus to seek your assistance
to provide us with the facilities to transfer this money out of Africa. This
is born out of our belief in the non-stable economy and spurious political
nature of this Continent-region. If we agree to work together as partners on
this, then this sum of $5M will be transferred into your Bank Account
through Ecobank Ltd Accra-Ghana, because that is the Bank where the world
Bank Grant for the project, of which I am in charge, is deposited Based on
the law and ethics of our service to ASIP, we as civil servants are not
allowed to operate a foreign account This is the more reason why we needed
your assistance to provide an account that can hold this funds when
transferred to your country. It is however agreed, as the person providing
the account to secure the funds in your country, you are offered 15% of the
total sum as commission, 80% will be held on trust for us, while 5% is set
aside to reimburse expenses incurred in the course of executing the project.
The project is expected to be successfully completed within 14 days if you
accord us the maximum cooperation needed from you. We hope to retire
peacefully and lead an honorable business life after wards. There is no risk
involved. Reply through this email.
With regards,
Engr. david white koffi

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